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Ask What’s Missing? Who is Paying Attention, Please?

Posted on January 5, 2015 by Barbara Cleary

Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! First blog post of the new year here…I thought it’d be fun to help teachers see who is paying attention in class (or elsewhere) as 2015 kicks off. “What’s…

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Reading As Listening – Encourage Kids to Use Ears with Eyes Reading

Posted on June 9, 2014 by Barbara Cleary

Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! Something about the death last week of Maya Angelou (details about Maya below) got me thinking about a new way to help children embrace reading… How? Present reading as…

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Teachers Are People, Too!

Posted on May 13, 2013 by Barbara Cleary

Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! A fun way to help students learn that teachers are people too – meaning that teachers have lives outside of school – is to invite your own mother to class if…

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Become the Classroom of the Traveling Story!

Posted on October 15, 2012 by Barbara Cleary

Hi and welcome back to Attentionology for K – 5 Teachers! A couple of weeks ago I spent a little free time between classes rummaging through old educational magazines and journals on the Professional Shelves of the school’s Media Center.…

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